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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

THREE Releases Leave Me with a Happy Glow!!!

Wow! This is a big day! HUGE, in fact. Because THREE-count'em-THREE of my very best writing buddies have books being released today!!

How awesome is that?

Well, I'll tell you. Pretty darn freakin' awesome!!!

For those of you who popped over to visit me when I was at The Debutante Ball, you might remember my Deb Sister, Erika Marks. If you're really lucky, you've already read her debut novel, LITTLE GALE GUMBO, which came out last year about this time. It's a totally, completely delicious read, and I highly recommend it. (Click on the title for more info about it.)

More than a century
ago, lighthouse keeper Linus Harris left his beloved wife and waded
into the ocean with three other men to reunite with their mermaid
lovers. The mysterious Mermaid Mutiny of 1888 has become legend for the
residents of Cradle Harbor, Maine, honored by the town’s Mermaid
Festival every August, when wind chimes are hung from seaside porches to
drown out the alluring sound of mermaid song.

For
thirty-five-year-old Tess Patterson, the legend is more than folklore;
it’s proof of life’s magic. A hopeless romantic who is profoundly
connected to the ocean in which she lost her mother, Tess ekes out a
living as a wood-carver and longs to find a love as mystical as the sea.
But when she’s hired to carve the commemorative mermaid sculpture for
the coming festival, a chance to win the town’s elusive acceptance might
finally be in her grasp.

For Tom Grace, life’s magic was lost
at eighteen, when the death of his parents left him to care for his
reckless brother, Dean. Now thirty-five and the new owner of Cradle
Harbor’s prized lightkeeper’s house, Tom hopes the quiet town will calm
Dean’s self-destructive ways. But when Tom discovers Tess working on her
sculpture, an unlikely and passionate affair ignites between them that
just might be the stuff of legend itself—even as it brings to the
surface a long-buried secret that could tear everything apart.

I can just see myself curling up with a cuppa and THE MERMAID COLLECTOR. Make me happy just anticipating it.

AND two of my critique partners have their debut books coming out today, too! How cool is that?

Mia is always looking
for signs. A sign that she should get serious with her soccer-captain
boyfriend. A sign that she’ll get the grades to make it into an
Ivy-league school. One sign she didn’t expect to look for was:
“Will I survive cancer?” It’s a question her friends would never
understand, prompting Mia to keep her illness a secret. The only one who
knows is her lifelong best friend, Gyver, who is poised to be so much
more. Mia is determined to survive, but when you have so much going your
way, there is so much more to lose. From debut author Tiffany Schmidt
comes a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting story of one girl’s
search for signs of life in the face of death.

Camden Pike has been
grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good
thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a
career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life
shattered, and healing his pain long after the meds wore off. And now,
he’d give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a
visit to the site of Viv’s deadly car accident, he sees some kind of
apparition. And it isn’t Viv.

The apparition’s name is Nina, and
she’s not a ghost. She’s a girl from a parallel world, and in this
world, Viv is still alive. Cam can’t believe his wildest dreams have
come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter
the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam
have both made very different choices, things between them have changed
in unexpected ways, and Viv isn’t the same girl he remembers. Nina is
keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds
is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has
become and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he’s forced to
choose—stay with Viv or let her go—before the window closes between them
once and for all.

I have, of course, read both of those already (hey, being a CP of such talented writers has its perks), and, you guys, let me tell you that they are both astoundingly good reads. And no, I am not just saying that because they are my friends and CPs. I promise you that. I would genuinely love these books even if I didn't know their authors from Adam.

About Me

Author of the hilariously sexy Ciel Halligan urban fantasy series from Tor. If you need to reach me, you can try me at linda(dot)grimes(at)gmail(dot)com. I'll probably even respond. Unless you're a spammer, in which case just go do something rude to yourself.